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Get on it Joe! : How a strengthening gun violence prevention coalition pushed Biden to act
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U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 8, 2021. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS)Yuri Gripas / TNS
WASHINGTON In the first two months of President Joe Biden’s administration, many of the nation’s most powerful gun violence prevention groups were dismayed with the leadership of the man they thought was going to be their strongest champion.
While they were receiving private meetings, they felt American gun deaths were placed on the back-burner by an administration single-mindedly pursing the COVID-19 pandemic. After multiple mass shootings and deaths in March, Alexis Confer, executive director of March for Our Lives, and Greg Jackson, national advocacy director at Community Justice Action Fund, flipped texts message back and forth saying “we’ve got to do something.”
WASHINGTON — Saying Americans are clamoring for action on the issue of gun violence, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said, recently, that under current law, the Department of Justice (DOJ) in